Description:
Main Responsibilities
- Represent the Sustainability function in all questions relating to ESG risks, reporting and regulation, presenting to senior leaders and Group counterparts.
- Provide expert input to 2LOD Risk to support development of:
- a suitable framework for tracking, analysing and managing Sustainability-related risks.
- appropriate internal controls.
- Build out and continually enhance the Sustainability department's operational risk register and use your insights to help partners capture relevant risks.
- Develop the Bank's Sustainability Data, MI and Reporting strategy.
- Design and deliver a satisfactory quality of sustainability reporting, aligned to market expectations - e.g. TCFD, TPT, UK Taxonomy, TNFD and ISSB - and relevant to the Bank's growing maturity in this area.
- Scope the Bank's foreseeable Sustainability data requirements and deliver a Bank-wide data improvement programme.
- Provide expert insights into the evolving regulatory agenda.
- Guide partner functions in assessing the relevance and impact of specific developments, and to design appropriate responses.
Ideal Candidate
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- A passion for sustainability, evidenced through professional development and impact.
- First-hand experience analysing and advising on market and regulatory developments in a banking / financial services setting.
- Experience operating at a range of levels from senior management, C-suite and Board, through second line Audit, Risk and Compliance, to branch colleagues, as required.
- Fluency with a range of relevant external standards and evolving practices, including but not limited to SBTi, GRI, PCAF, PACTA and relevant ISOs.
- Demonstrable experience managing and analysing data, particularly in relation to reporting, risk and/or regulation.
- First rate relationship management.